Every photo tells a story. However, every photo also has a story behind it.
Giulio Saggin has been a photographer for over 25 years and many of his photos have stories to tell. This is a collection of those photos and how they came into being.

About Me

I was born in Rome, Italy, in 1968 to Australian parents doing the 60s thing. We all moved back to Australia, and Brisbane, in 1974.
Not knowing what to do when I graduated from high school in 1985, I spent the following year working several part-time jobs. It was during this year I began taking photos and gained entry to the Queensland College of Art, studying there in 1987-88.
Deciding a career as a news photographer was more important than my studies, I concentrated on this and my final college-dictated folio was failed.
I did, however, secure a cadetship at the Canberra Times newspaper in 1989. In 1990 I moved back to Brisbane and The SUN newspaper.
I began freelancing in 1991 and, at six weeks notice, set off for Scotland with two mates in July 1992. Over the following five-and-a-half years, I had photos published in every major Scottish and London-based newspaper.
At the start of 1998 I left Scotland and hitchhiked all the way around Australia photographing everyone who gave me a lift and writing about each hitch (link below). I live in Brisbane and continue to work in the media.

Giulio's books, blogs and award winning panoramas

You, The Citizen Photographer: Telling Visual Stories"A picture shows something. A photo tells a story"My book translates photography into a language we all understand - the written word - by showing how photos (visual stories) are constructed in the same way as written stories. It doesn't take much to make a picture into a visual story i.e. a photo. After all, stories are always far more interesting than a jumble of information.http://youthecitizenphotographer.blogspot.com.au/

Deep Fried PizzaSteve Butcher is young, Australian and living in Scotland. He is a tabloid photographer. He is also disillusioned. His life isn't one of Page 3 Girls and celebrities. Instead, his morals and ethics are compromised every day. Thankfully, his life also revolves around beer, football, cable TV and, occasionally, women. It is through these he maintains his sanity. However, by the time his fourth Scottish winter – a particularly fierce one – arrives, he is at his wits' end... http://deepfriedpizzabook.blogspot.com/

Stories from the top end of Australia that, while normal to the locals, constantly amuse/bemuse/shock/alarm/startle/terrify just about anyone else - http://tftte.blogspot.com/

Blogs aside, there are also my award-winning panoramas of urban and industrial scenes that focus on the overlooked, subconscious sense of design that exists in the world surrounding us - http://www.giuliophotography.com.au/